Vintage Mink Bears by Kathy Myers
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Monday, August 17, 2015
Spotted dog ... WIP for Laura
Laura requested a spotted dog from her crosscut mink scraps ... great choice because I love making my spotted dogs! I enlarged my dog pattern to make a dog as large as possible from the remaining scraps. I managed to enlarge my original dog pattern by 30%.
I will be updating as I go ... so check back again ...
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| A pile of pattern pieces As you can see I tried to cut out a mix of black and white. |
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| I still hand sew the entire dog ... this is the most time consuming part ... but there are so many tricky darts and other areas that need intricate joining that hand sewing is my only choice. |
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| So far the head is looking great! |
Monday, August 10, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Custom ... WIP Skunk
Custom order for Laura
2 skunks from her crosscut mink
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| I am altering this pattern to make 2 custom skunks from the crosscut mink. I've enlarged it by 25% and made some other changes. |
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| I am considering using the chevon patterned pelt to use for the tail ... that could be interesting. |
Skunks in real life have many different black and white patterns:
This is such a unique custom order that I will be creating a photo journey of the
creation of these two skunks ... so keep checking back for updates.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Custom Mink Mouse
for Dee ...
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| Dee decided that her mouse should have ears up ... good decision! So sweet. More photos posted on the link above. |
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Now it's back to Laura's WIP black and white crosscut mink coat custom order ....
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| This is my "Sweetheart Skunk" ... but in brown and white. I like this pattern. I could use this pattern and use the crosscut black and white mink pelts to give the skunk random patterns because, as you can see, skunks can have different patterns. I may have to enlarge the pattern . Laura, just has to decide if she wants a skunk ... or a panda from her black and white pelts. |
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| Striped Skunk |
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| Skunk |
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Work In Progress
Laura's cross-cut mink coat to be transformed into ???
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| Unfortunately most of this coat can not be used to create a teddy or other animal. Why? Because the majority of the coat is a chevron pattern where just a small strip is fur and the largest area is leather. |
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| The leather strips are wider than the fur strips. |
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| Inside of coat ... thin strips of fur and leather sewn together in a chevron pattern. |
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| There are larger pelt areas that can be used: the collar, the cuffs, the shoulders, the upper back. |
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| I will need to cut the coat apart to see how much fur I have to work with |
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| I'm not sure what I will be making using this cross-cut mink. I will make some suggestions and Laura will have to decide. |
Cutting coat apart:
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| The body of the coat already makes a nice mink throw! |
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| This is what I have left to use to make a mink creature ... obviously something black and white. A panda? A skunk? Any other ideas? |
Friday, July 17, 2015
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